Ulee's Gold

  • Drama
6/13/1997
112
R

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Third-generation Florida beekeeper Ulee Jackson may have gotten out of Vietnam alive, but he left a part of himself behind. Now he methodically tends his bees, carefully provides for his two grandchildren and keeps his emotions at bay. But when a long-buried secret threatens Ulee's business and family, he is forced to break through his emotional walls and confront the terror of his wounded spirit.

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  • Wuchak

    Low-key Southern Gothic about a struggling family living by the swamps of western Florida

    An emotionally-detached Vietnam vet making a living as a beekeeper on the boggy panhandle of Florida (Peter Fonda) deals with grief, the meaninglessness of life, his son in prison (Tom Wood), a drug-addled daughter-in-law (Christine Dunford), a rebellious granddaughter (Jessica Biel), a new neighbor (Patricia Richardson) and a couple of thugs from Orlando (Steven Flynn and Dewey Weber).

    "Ulees Gold" (1997) is a slice-of-life Southern Gothic that could be mentioned in the same breath as Ode to Billy Joe (1976), The Man in the Moon (1991), Sling Blade (1996), The Apostle (1997) Undertow (2004), Back Roads (2018) and The Devil All the Time (20...

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